Presents
Pamphlet #4157
Presents
Pamphlet #4157
My Note: End days reference to Judah and Israel as two separate entities. Ref. Scripture Jeremiah 3:18, 23:6, 30:6, 50:4, and 50:20.
End days reference to Judah and Israel as two separate entities; neither of which we know as Jews today.
Scripture: Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jeremiah 30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Yep! They are two separate houses, but scattered, to this day and will be until God joins them together when He returns. See Ezehiel 37:15-22
It is a fact that the house of Judah IS NOT the house of Israel!
Have
you ever given any thought to how it is
that
Christians sing in their hymnals about and say prayers unto "the God of
our fathers,
Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob"
and
then turn right around and refer to them as Jews!
Think about this.
None
of those three were Jews,
for
Judah was a son of Jacob (see chart below).
Do
you know that the words Hebrew, Israelite, and Judah (Jew)
are
NOT synonymous terms.
God's
appointed watchmen,
those
who have eaten the Scroll, the Word of God,
and
digested it in their bellies, do know the difference.
In
fact, they are instructed to educate their people
about
those differences and so it is a very important "end times"
job
of the watchmen.
Let's read about it.
Ezekiel 37:15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,[16] Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
There
is something so extremely important that our Father wants
His
watchman to continually teach it, all their lives!
What is it?
It is the fact that the house of Judah IS NOT the house of Israel!
They are split into two houses!
Judah,
along with their allotment of Levites
and
many from the tribe of Benjamin,
comprise
the "House of Judah",
while
Joseph, of whom the tribe of Ephraim was the largest,
along
with the rest of the 10 northern tribes
comprise
the other house, the "House of Israel".
There are two houses, two sticks, NOT ONE!
Here is why this is so important:
If you do not understand these two houses, then you are not a watchman unto the house of Israel, for you know not who to watch over. Furthermore, if you do not understand who these two houses are, then you cannot possibly understand Bible prophecy! Here's the test question, "Can you show someone where the United States of America, which has many times more Bibles in the land than people, is mentioned in God's Word?" You should not only be able to do that, but as a watchman you are commanded to show the two sticks to the dry bones! That's what this section of the 37th chapter of Ezekiel is all about!
That's the WRONG ANSWER!
And
the biggest problem is that most ministers and preachers
will
tell you exactly the same thing,
that
the Jews are the same as the house of Israel,
but
they are "dead" wrong.
So much for their understanding of Bible prophecy, huh!
So
here's what you do:
You
say to one of these bone heads when you encounter them,
"Don't
move, I'll be right back."
Then go over to the nearest tree and rip off two small limbs... wait a minute!
Check
and make sure this action is not in violation
of
one the 57,002 environmental regulations in your township.
Next,
take a permanent black Sharpie and write "Judah" on one of the sticks like
Ezekiel
37:16 told you to do,
hand
it to skeleton man*, and say,
"Hold
this up in your left hand a minute."
Take
the other stick and write "Joseph" on it like Ezekiel
37:16 told you to do
and
tell your sinew challenged friend to hold this up in his right hand.
Now
say to him/her,
"Are
you holding one stick or two sticks?"
If
he says, "Wow man, I don't know",
that
means you are in a really arid section of town
where
the bones are becoming petrified,
i.e.
getting stoned.
Just
say "Ok dude" and go repeat this process
perhaps
in the suburbs somewhere.
(This
is a fairly close analogy to the teaching job of a watchman.)
Anyway, you've got the picture in your mind concerning the TWO sticks, not one stick, right?
*Note: Gender cannot be readily determined by looking at a skeleton. Gender is a thing of the flesh. So doesn't that make you wonder why all the prehistoric skeletons they discover are always called "men", you know, Neanderthal Man, Pilton Man, etc. Maybe those who made the discoveries were totally wrong and it was really Neanderthal Woman they found! Women just aren't treated equally with men in the theory of evolution.
For
the less theatrical among us,
there
is another way to use "sticks"
to
demonstrate that which God wants His watchmen
to
continually educate the dry bones about,
and
that is simply to write on and hold up the two branches on the Family Tree,
one
for Judah and one for Joseph.
Here
it is:
Let's
continue with verse 17 where God now tells Ezekiel
that
once the two sticks have been shown to be two separate sticks,
demonstrate
that they will be joined together and become just one stick.
This
is prophecy and will happen at the restoration in the Millennium,
which
begins at the 7th Trump, the return of Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel 37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
[18] And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
You
simply say something like,
"Did
you know it is written
(you
could even say "in Ezekiel chapter 37" if you remember the chapter)
that
God is going to restore the house of Judah and the house of Israel into
one?
That is because they are two separate houses right now."
[19] Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
It
is the Lord GOD, not man,
who
will restore His people, both houses you now know,
so
that they and all the nations round about them
"Shall
know that He is the LORD".
Ezekiel 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
You stick to it!
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